September 07, 1951 • Page Image 2
…443****4 2—THE JEWISH NEWS Purely Commentary Friday, September 7, 1951 By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Drastic Population Changes A century ago there were 4,500,000 Jews in Europe. In 1950 the number declined to 2.750,000. The number of resident European Jews more than doubled between 1850 and 1914, an additional 2,500,000 having emigrated from Europe, 90 per cent of them go- ing to America. Thus, European Jewry's numbers tripled in 64 years, the gen...…

















































